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Garrett Lynch performs Trav-erse

28th February 2011 by michael
arts | community | conceptual | documentary arts | event | exhibition | experimental | new media art | performance | radio | realtime | technology | video


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Trav-erse short (2011, 96 MB, 1:58 min)

This is shaping up to be Furtherfield fortnight & whyever not?
Here’s some footage I took there last Friday night, at the very entertaining
launch of the Art is Open Source/REFF – Roma Europa Fake Factory publication
& exhibition, (GO, if you’re in London) of a splendid performance by
Garrett Lynch of his Trav-erse, where he uses custom Max/MSP created software to
grab audio from an analogue world band receiver, manipulate and remix it.
I was struck both by the simplicity of the idea and the effectiveness of
its execution – a neat concept but also an excellent ear at work.
The sound from my stills cam video was unusable (shame, it sounded great
there) so in the latter section I’ve dubbed on sound from
an earlier performance of the piece in Cardiff, Wales in 2008.


Anne de Vries – Forecast

25th February 2011 by doron
arts | nature | new media art | remix/mashup | video


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Forecast (2011, 58 MB, 5:04 min)

By Anne de Vries.
Text: Bertrand Russell.
Sound: James Whipple.
Tech assistance: Timur Si-Qin.


Making Web MVideo by Michael Verdi

24th February 2011 by doron
activism | arts | community | documentary | movie making | participatory | technology | video | viral


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Making Web MVideo (2011, 51 MB, 5:55 min)

“There was a lot of talk this week about WebM video after Google announced
that they were going to drop H.264 support from Chrome. This is huge news
for video makers, especially since Firefox 4 (which supports WebM) is almost done.
I figured it was time to look into WebM encoding tools again.”..

from Michael Verdi.


Duchamp’s Urinal

23rd February 2011 by michael
arts | collaboration | community | conceptual | design | documentary arts | experimental | historical | new media art | remix/mashup | science | technology | video


Duchamp's Fountain
Duchamp’s Fountain (2011, 93MB, 1:59 min, silent)

Fascinating bit of footage from Kev Flanagan arising out
of a piece of work by Rob Myers (together with Curt Cloninger one
of the two smartest people I know) –here’s the original post
from his blog to give some context.
The whole thing sparked an interesting discussion on the Furtherfield
(see Monday’s post) originated Netbehaviour list this week.


Joseph Beuys – Soziale Plastik

22nd February 2011 by doron
archive | arts | conceptual | documentary arts | identity | participatory | portraiture | silent | trailer | video


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Soziale Plastik (1969, 9 MB, 1:47 min)

Joseph Beuys accepts the challenge to expose himself to the anonymous spectator,
in speechless close-up on a video monitor: the artist as


A Film About Furtherfield by Pete Gomes

21st February 2011 by michael
arts | collaboration | community | documentary arts | education | interview | portraiture | video


snow haiku
Furtherfield (2011, 103MB, 5:28 min)

Great film about the wonderful UK arts organisation Furtherfield
– you can see & hear me* in it, enthusing further at a couple of points.
Beautifully made by Pete Gomes, it really captures something of
what makes Furtherfield such a big & special deal.

* So let that stand for a full declaration of interest:
I work with them, they’re my friends, they’ve shown
my work – none of which makes any of the nice things
said by me or anyone in the film any less true…


Steven Ball – Aroundabout: Second Person Present

18th February 2011 by michael
architecture | arts | community | conceptual | experimental | landscape | new media art | observational | performance | place | poetry | process/systems | silent


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Aroundabout: Second Person Present (2011, 117MB, 4 min, silent)

Extracted from a longer work made for Steven Ball’s
Aroundabout blog


“I also showed it as part of a presentation of material from
Aroundabout I did at City Methodologies at the Slade,
where it was displayed looped continuously on a flat
screen monitor face up on the floor, while I ‘performed’
the blog with Powerpoint!”

Some of these expanded cinema folk do relish a challenge!

Even truncated & divorced from its performative context it stands
as a splendid bit of structural/formalist film/vid poetry.


“Next To Heaven” Returns for a Second Season

17th February 2011 by doron
archive | cinema | community | film | remix/mashup | satire | trailer | vlog


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DuPont (2011, 25 MB, 2:42 min.)

smokey_preview
Smokey (2011, 25 MB, 2:45 min.)

A couple of previews from Rob Parrish


Wendy Keenan – 3 Movies

16th February 2011 by michael
cellphone | strange


legbones
legbones (2011, 1MB, 1:11 min)

outtake
outtake (2011, 0.2MB, 10 secs)

dawnchorusorspeakingintongues
dawnchorusorspeakingintongues (2011, 0.6MB, 33 secs)

The only things I know about these three pieces is that they
were posted to the Netbehaviour list on Saturday last, that they
were shot on a cellphone and that they are …well… quite odd.
Almost disturbingly so, but in a thrilling way too:
to be so offhandedly minimal, so cavalier about any technical considerations
and still to make something with this sort of punch…


littlelines by Curt Cloninger

15th February 2011 by doron
arts | datamoshing | experimental | glitch/datamoshing | new media art | performance | remix/mashup | technology


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littlelines (1965, 68 MB, 17:28 min)

A beautiful short experimental piece by Curt Cloninger,
messing around with ffmpeg and – “datamoshing.”.
More from Curt here.